Looks like a couple options for the climb to the top... best place for my wife to drop me off? Suicide to ride alone? (Iím comfortable with exposure and love natural, raw, chunky trails)

Ideal ride would be her dropping me off on the edge of the pavement at Aspen Vista and take RR-REM to DoubleDiscount (discount double check?) back to camp along FS/FR102. Followed by copious consumption of IPA by the fire.

Looks like a couple options for the climb to the top... best place for my wife to drop me off? Suicide to ride alone? (Iím comfortable with exposure and love natural, raw, chunky trails)

Ideal ride would be her dropping me off on the edge of the pavement at Aspen Vista and take RR-REM to DoubleDiscount (discount double check?) back to camp along FS/FR102. Followed by copious consumption of IPA by the fire.

You take Cutover from the last creek crossing on REM back to 102, don't Discount your ride to camp if you ever want to see your wife again. Raven's>REM is arguably the finest big boy descent in the lower 48. It really should be an EWS stage.